Snowden: NSA snoops shared intercepted sextings

5:20 PM,
Jul. 21, 2014

Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, is shown June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong.

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John Bacon
USA TODAY

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says the analysts who monitored the texts and e-mails of millions of Americans would sometimes share intercepted nude photos and sex texts with colleagues.

Snowden, in a lengthy interview with the Guardian published this weekend, said he and his colleagues sometimes doubted the ethics of what they were doing.

"Many of the people searching through the haystacks (of information) were young, enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old," Snowden told the publication. "In the course of their daily work, they stumble across something that is ...